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Title: Creationist Research 1964-1988 by Duane T. Gish ISBN: 0-940384-06-X Publisher: Creation Research Society Books Pub. Date: September, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Index of early creation research.
Comment: This work is simply what it describes itself to be - an index of early origins research by scientists who believe in the Bible. Although it is dated relative to the rapid growth of work in this field it is a handy reference tool for those who would find it helpful to understand what was being done in that era. Of course, this index only lists research within creationary circles, not the much greater volume of papers and research done by creationary scientists in secular publications that do not have (obviously) divisive implications.

Bible-believing scientists do research the same as anyone else, as this monograph demonstrates. As you'll note if you look around, some people don't cope well with that reality. Why then should anyone trust what they claim about the unobserved past?

Rating: 1
Summary: Creation Science, ...Right!
Comment: Gish proves beyond a doubt that the term "Creation Science" is an oxymoron.

Rating: 1
Summary: Do they do scientific research?
Comment: This book attempts to show that there exists something that can be called "creation science" and that "creation scientists" do something that may be called "scientific research". The annual budget of Morris' and Gish's ICR (The Institute for Creation Research) is about 5 million dollars. Even if I believe the self-advertisement in this book, it seems that their money are not used too efficiently. If you are a believer, you should be worried about the way in which your money are spent. Even the propaganda might be done better for those money than they do. Books like this one cannot convince anyone who is not already convinced.

In order to show how do they do "science", let me tell you a story about the author. In July of 1982, Dr. Duane Gish debated Dr. Russell Doolittle on public TV. In response to the argument for evolution involving molecular taxonomy, Gish claimed that some blood proteins were more similar between bullfrogs and man than between chimpanzees and man. His source was a story told by Garniss Curtis (UC Berkeley) at the July, 1971 Wenner-Gren conference in Austria. It seems there was a rumor of study comparing blood proteins of humans and bullfrogs that gave the above result (perhaps from the Transylvanian Academy of Sciences?). Curtis predicted (correctly) that the result would not be published or repeated, because it was a dreadful tragedy - the frog was actually an enchanted prince!

Gish defends himself by saying he thought Curtis was serious! I, for one, believe Gish - he has made a career out of going around telling jokes and calling them science, and I find it easy to believe he can't tell the difference.